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50 Livres

Issuer Banque de Syrie et du Liban
Year 1952-1964
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Reference(s) P#59
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Obverse lettering CINQUANTE LIVRES LIBANAISES
خمسون ليرة لبنانية
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ليرة
50
LIVRES
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The Banque de Syrie et du Liban was a French-chartered institution operating under mandate-era arrangements that had long outlasted the mandate itself. By the time this series entered circulation, Syria had already severed its monetary union with Lebanon in 1948, establishing its own central bank — yet the Banque de Syrie et du Liban continued issuing notes for Lebanon alone until the Banque du Liban finally took over in 1964, the year this series ended.

Thomas De La Rue handled the printing throughout, as they had for the institution since the postwar transition period. The twelve-year span of this issue is unusually long for a single series running into a central bank replacement.

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